TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – Some restaurants here aren’t even open today, but their owners say they’d make an exception if Timothy McVeigh wanted them to make his last meal.

McVeigh can choose any restaurant in town to feed him, as long as it costs less than $20. At press time, McVeigh hadn’t said what he was craving for his final meal, which is being served at 1 p.m. today.

“We’re closed tomorrow, but we’d open for him. A man deserves a decent last meal,” said Ambrose Farrell yesterday. He works at Homey’s, the hands-down best rib joint in town, according to locals.

Farrell recommends the full slab of Homey’s barbecue ribs, which come with bread, for $16.80.

For another $1.25, McVeigh could pick two side dishes from among macaroni and cheese, coleslaw, baked potato or collard greens, and still, notes Farrell, “have enough left over for a couple Cokes.”

Zamberletti’s, the most popular Italian place in town, is also closed Sundays, but Kim Gulledge offered to open the doors and give McVeigh her 20 percent employee discount so he could try the house specialties.

She suggested an appetizer of garlic shrimp, followed by chicken parmesan, which comes with a side of spaghetti, a dinner salad with choice of homemade blue cheese, Italian or Thousand Island dressing, breadsticks from Fossi’s, the local bakery, and Zamberletti’s special cream-cheese dip.

That meal would cost $19.70.

“We have a full bar, so we’d even buy him a drink,” Gulledge said. “And if he thinks that’s too much food, we also have excellent cheeseburgers.”

Stables Steakhouse, say locals, is the most expensive restaurant in town, but McVeigh could get a petite filet, along with salad and his choice of baked, smashed-garlic or smashed-blue-